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Title: Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Post, George Edward, 1838-1909
Subjects: Botany -- Syria Botany -- Palestine Botany -- Egypt Sinai
Publisher: Beirut, Syria : Syrian Protestant college
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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with a nectar-bearingpore at back, inserted under the carpels. Carpels connate, in a ring,forming a capsule-like berry — Flowers yellow, not showy. M. luteum, L. 2f Common yellow Water-lily. Leaves ovatedeeply cordate. Sepals orbiculate. concave. Anthers oblong-linear.Stigma unbilicate, 12-16-rayed, entire, or slightly repand — Summer— In ponds and streams, throughout. Order IV. PAPAVERACEiE. (Poppy Family.) Herbs with milky or colored juice., flowers regular(except Hyjyecoum,^ lohich has two imequal pairs of oppositepetals)., loith fugacious sepals^ polyandrous hypogy7ious^ theovary 1-celled %oith two or more p^arietal placentce, or asiliqice^ %celled hy a spongy partition connecting the placentas^or a loment separated into joints hy transverse partitions^or apparently a many-celled capsule^ the placentm nearlyreaching the axis. — Petals 4-6. Stamens usually numerous(in Hypecoiim 4). Ovules numerous. Capsule opening bypores or valves. Leaves alterjiate, ex stipulate. Fig. 6 c
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e f Fig, 6. (a) Bud of Papaver rhaeas, L. showing the caducous sepals, separating like ahood. (6) Open flower of the same, showing 4 petals, numerous stamens, and obovate 5 50 PAP AVERAGES. (POPPY FAMILY.) ovary, crowned with a convex disk and rayed stigmas, (c^ Ripe capsule of same, withumbonate disk, (d) Capsule of P, hybridum, L, (c) Silique of Chelidonium. (/) Thesame after separation of valves, (g) Loment of Hypecoum procumbens, L. * Flowers regular. 1. PAPAVER. Ovary an incompletely several-celled capsule Stigmas 4-20. 2. RCEMERIA. Ovary 1-celled. Stigmas 3-4 Fruit elono-ated siliquiform. 3. GLAUCIUM. Ovary a silique with spongy partition, and 2-cells, Stigma 2-lobed. * * Flowers irregular, the similar petals opposite each other in pairs. Ovary l-celled. 4. HYPECOUM. Plants with orange-colored juice, and leaves dissected like those of Fumaria. 1. PAPAVER, L. Poppy. KUsKkMsh. Sepals 2-B. Petals 4, rarely 5-6, cnimpled in the bud. Stamensvery numerous. Stigma sessile, united in a

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